Abstract: A four-wheel drive vehicle includes: a drive-power distribution device for distributing a drive power from an engine to main and auxiliary drive wheels with a drive-power distribution ratio between the main drive wheels and auxiliary drive wheels; and a control apparatus for controlling an electric motor such that the drive-power distribution ratio becomes a target distribution ratio value, by setting an electric-current command value for driving an electric motor. The control apparatus is configured, in a drive-power transmitted state in which the drive power is transmitted to the drive-power distribution device, to execute a command-value reduction control operation for causing the electric motor to be driven with the electric-current command value being set to a value smaller than in a drive-power non-transmitted state in which the drive power is not being transmitted to the drive-power distribution device.

Abstract: An oil dilution inhibiting apparatus is configured to inhibit oil dilution caused by mixture of fuel into engine oil. The oil dilution inhibiting apparatus includes a control unit. The control unit is configured to estimate friction of an engine and determine that the oil dilution occurs when the friction of the engine is decreased to a value lower than or equal to a predetermined threshold value to perform control so that the engine is operated at a higher speed.

Abstract: A developing device includes a developer bearer rotatable in a rotation direction and forming a developing range, a holder, and an entrance seal. The holder has a facing face facing the developer bearer upstream from the developing range in the rotation direction, a support face defining a part of an outer face of the developing device, and a relay face extending from one end of the support face to one end of the relay face connected to the facing face to form an acute tip portion closer to the developing range than the one end. The entrance seal has a free end projecting from the one end as a cantilever, and a length of the entrance seal from a tip of the free end of the entrance seal to the one end is shorter than a length of the relay face from the acute tip portion to the one end.

Abstract: An electrolyte solution containing a compound (1) represented by the formula (1), (wherein R101 and R102 are each individually a substituent such as a C1-C7 alkyl group, and the substituent optionally contains at least one divalent to hexavalent hetero atom in a structure or optionally has a structure obtained by replacing at least one hydrogen atom by a fluorine atom or a C0-C7 functional group) and at least one compound (11) selected from compounds such as a compound represented by formula (11-1) (wherein R111 and R112 are the same as or different from each other and are each a hydrogen atom or the like, and R113 is an alkyl group free from a fluorine atom or the like):

Abstract: An image generation device, a robot control device and a computer program are provided which enable widening the range of pixel values in a composite image. This image generation device, for generating a composite image by combining images, is provided with: an image capture number setting unit which sets the number of captured images captured of a subject; an exposure time setting unit which sets the exposure time of the captured images; a brightness range setting unit which sets the brightness range of the subject; an imaging control unit which performs control such that the imaging unit images the subject on the basis of the aforementioned number of captured images and exposure time; and an image combining unit which combines the aforementioned captured images on the basis of the brightness range and generates a composite image.

Abstract: An object monitoring system includes means for determining an arrangement relationship between a monitoring area and an external object on a basis of a distance measurement value of the external object, and calculating an influence degree of the external object on an object distance measurement in the monitoring area in accordance with the determined arrangement relationship.

Abstract: A distance measurement device includes a light emission unit which is capable of emitting measurement light to be irradiated toward an object, a light reception unit configured to receive light from the object via an optical filter through which light having the same wavelength band as the measurement light passes, a distance calculation unit configured to calculate a distance to the object based on each charge amount obtained by accumulating a charge corresponding to the received light at a plurality of timings which are delayed by a predetermined phase with respect to emission timing of the measurement light, and an external light intensity calculation unit configured to calculate external light illuminance of external light illuminating the object at the spectral sensitivity of the optical filter based on the charge amounts acquired at the light reception unit and a reflectivity of the object.

Abstract: A distance-measuring apparatus includes an optical window incorporating a first polarizing filter that polarizes reference light and a second polarizing filter that polarizes incident light in a direction inclined at 90 degrees relative to a polarization direction of the first polarizing filter.

Abstract: To suppress non-uniformness in an adhesion range of a refrigerant to a coil end. A rotating electric machine includes a rotor, a stator, and a case. The case forms outflow holes 122A and 122B through which the refrigerant flows out toward an extra-slot conductor 139 of a stator coil.

Abstract: A distance-measuring apparatus includes a precision calculation section that calculates a precision for each pixel, the precision based on a relation among the amounts of the electric charges stored at a plurality of timings that respectively delay by certain phases from a timing of the emission of the measuring light, wherein the precision is outputted from the distance-measuring apparatus.

Abstract: A polybutadiene composition that is excellent in hardness of a rubber composition, in processability and extrusion dimensional stability, and in physical properties. The polybutadiene composition includes polybutadiene rubber and syndiotactic-1,2-polybutadiene, and the polybutadiene composition has an interfacial component between the polybutadiene rubber and the syndiotactic-1,2-polybutadiene, and the interfacial component has a thickness of 40 to 55 nm as measured by an atomic force microscope.

Abstract: A distance image capturing system including: an image acquisition unit for capturing a plurality of images of an object at the same image capturing position and in the same image capturing orientation with respect to the object to acquire a plurality of first distance images; an image synthesis unit for synthesizing the plurality of first distance images to generate a second distance image; and a number-of-image-capturing-operation determination unit for estimating a distance measurement error in the second distance image and determining the number of image capturing operations for the first distance images at which the estimated distance measurement error is equal to or less than a predetermined target error.

Abstract: A three-dimensional measurement device includes a camera for acquiring position information for three-dimensional points on the surface of an object on the basis of the time of flight of light, and a control device. The camera acquires, at a plurality of relative positions of the camera with respect to a workpiece, three-dimensional point position information. A plurality of evaluation regions are defined for the workpiece. The control device specifies, for each evaluation region, the three-dimensional point closest to a reference plane from among three-dimensional points detected in the evaluation region. The control device generates, on the basis of the multiple three-dimensional points specified for the respective evaluation regions, three-dimensional point position information in which multiple pieces of three-dimensional point position information acquired by the camera are combined.

Abstract: An object monitoring system includes a distance measuring device which generates, while repeating an imaging cycle having different imaging modes, a distance image of a target space for each of the imaging modes, and a computing device which determines presence or absence of an object within a monitoring area set in the target space based on the distance image.

Abstract: A distance measuring apparatus includes a reference object distance calculation section which calculates a distance to a reference object based on a two-dimensional image in which the reference object, which includes a plurality of feature points having obvious three-dimensional coordinate correlations, is captured, and a correction amount calculation section which calculates a correction amount for correcting a distance image by comparing the calculated distance to the reference object with a distance measurement value to the reference object in the distance image.

Abstract: A distance measuring apparatus includes an optical system abnormality detection section for detecting abnormalities of an optical system of the distance measuring apparatus by comparing a relationship between a measured distance value d and a light intensity Ls with a reference value K?, K?1, KLs0d0, or KAb0.

Abstract: An object monitoring system includes means for calculating an arrangement of an external object in a target space based on a distance measurement value of the external object, and estimating a shift amount of the distance measurement value caused by the external object in accordance with the calculated arrangement, and means for correcting, based on the estimated shift amount, determination of whether or not a monitored object is present in a monitoring area set in the target space.

Abstract: A plurality of first vacuum pads for suctioning a workpiece are directly or indirectly attached to a main body. A slider is configured to slide in an outward direction of the main body. When the slider slides to protrude in the outward direction of the main body while the first vacuum pads are suctioning the workpiece, a sensor detects an end portion of the workpiece. While the sensor detects the end portion of the workpiece and the slider is stopped, a second vacuum pad holds up the end portion of the workpiece by suctioning the workpiece at a position outside from positions at which the first vacuum pads suction the workpiece.

Abstract: The object detection system includes a TOF sensor which outputs an image of a target space on the basis of a phase difference between reference light emitted toward the target space and reflected light from the target space, an object detection section which detects a position of an object present in the target space on the basis of the output image, an imaging conditions calculation section which calculates imaging conditions including at least one of an integration time and a light emission period of the TOF sensor on the basis of an image of the detected object, and an imaging conditions changing section which changes a configuration of the TOF sensor to the calculated imaging conditions, and the object detection section detects a position of the object on the basis of the image output under the changed imaging conditions.

Abstract: A distance image generation device includes a light projection unit for projecting reference light onto a subject, a light reception unit having a plurality of two-dimensionally arrayed pixels, an optical system for guiding light from the subject to the light reception unit, an influence calculation means for calculating, based on an amount of light received by a target pixel and peripheral pixels thereof among the plurality of pixels, an influence of optical phenomena on the target pixel and the peripheral pixels, an impact calculation means for calculating the impact exerted by the peripheral pixels on the target pixel based on the influence, and a distance image generation means for generating a distance image of the subject based on the impact.